Short Inspiring Work Quotes to Motivate the Workplace

Sometimes you need something to inspire you to go the extra mile at work, and sometimes you just need something to get you through the day. Either way, we have you covered. And we have also gathered all the short inspiring work quotes for your next post.

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Short Inspiring Work Quotes

“Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.” —Gary Vaynerchuk

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.” — Helen Keller

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” — Albert Einstein

“There is no success without hardship.” – Sophocles

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.” — Helen Keller

“Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.” — Iain Duncan Smith

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” — Dalai Lama

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” – Paul Sweeney

“To follow, without halt, one aim: that’s the secret of success.” – Anna Pavlova

“Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” ―Ken Poirot

“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” ―Buddha

“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” —Dalai Lama

“Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.” — Sam Altman

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser

“Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.” – J. Paul Getty

“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.” – Frank Ocean

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Hard work spotlights the character of people.” — Sam Ewing

“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy

“One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.” — Robert Brault

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.” — Richard Whately

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” —

Saint Francis

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Motivation is a fire from within.” — Stephen R. Covey

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” — Albert Einstein

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.” — Colin Powell

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

“Don’t be distracted by criticism.” — Zig Ziglar

“Developing a good work ethic is key.” — Tyler Perry

“Mondays are the start of the work week which offers new beginnings 52 times a year!” — David Dweck

“When you start to do the things that you truly love, it wouldn’t matter whether it is Monday or Friday;” — Edmond Mbiaka

“If you love the work you are doing, then you will love Tuesday!” — Catherine Pulsifer

“It’s Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.” — Demetri Martin

“You are either on the upward trend or the downward slid to the end of the work week.” — Catherine Pulsifer

“…By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don’t go out because it’s horrible.” — El-P

“If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.” — Noel Coward

“Look around and show gratitude for your work, your family, and your friends.” — Theodore W. Higginsworth

“Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness.” — Tracey Edmonds

“It’s bad luck to begin work on Fridays.” — Southern Mothers

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” — Bill Gates

“No man goes before his time—unless the boss leaves early.” — Groucho Marx

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” — Oscar Wilde

“You can’t have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage worth ethic.” — Zig Ziglar

“The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” — Sarah Brown

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.” — Robert Orben

“Delegate your work. Stop spending dollar time on penny jobs.” — Mary Kay Ash

“The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you’re finished.” — Groucho Marx

“The reward for good work is more work.” — Francesca Elisia

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” — Mark Twain

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” — Will Rogers

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.” — Zig Ziglar

“Where people aren’t having fun, they seldom produce good work.” — David Ogilvy

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” — Betty Reese

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” — Zig Ziglar

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing till you get there.” — Josh Billings

“If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work.” — Woody Allen

“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” — Phyllis Diller

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.” — Charles Lamb

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” — Henry Ford

“I never took a day off in my 20s. Not one.” — Bill Gates

“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn

“The future depends on what you do today.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” — Dale Carnegie

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.” — Eva Young

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.” — Irish Proverb

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” — Napoleon Hill

“The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” — John D. Rockefeller Jr.

“I failed my way to success.” — Thomas Edison

“A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissenger

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vince Lombardi

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” — Joseph Barbara

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” — Louis Pasteur

“It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourselves.” — Chanakya

“Attitude is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” — Roy T. Bennett

“Visualization works if you work hard.” — Jim Carrey

“If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.” — Haile Gebrselassie

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” — Stephen King

“Don’t be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily.”— Gertrude B. Elion

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Whatever you do, do it with all your might.” — Margaret Fuller

“Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.” — Harry Golden

”Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.” — Brian Tracy

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” — Seneca

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” — Beverly Sills

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” — Francis Chan

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much.” — Joan Collins

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston S. Churchill

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” — Colin R. Davis

“Begin anywhere.” ―John Cage

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm Forbes

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.” — Herbert Bayard Swope

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses.” — Kobe Bryant

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” — Patrick Suskind

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee

“If you have no critics you’ll likely have no success.” – Malcolm X

“Winners embrace hard work.“  — Lou Holtz

“Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

“Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides

“There is little success where there is little laughter.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” – Pablo Picasso

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Lorimer

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ―Oprah Winfrey

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen R. Covey

“I never lose. Either I win or learn.” ―Nelson Mandela

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.” — Albert Schweitzer

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

“I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day.” — Paul Henderson

“Success is the child of audacity.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Individual honors come with team success.” – Gilbert Arenas

“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.” — Ovid

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

“My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.” – Isaac Newton

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.” — Aristotle Onassis

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you.” ―Walt Whitman

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” — Peter F. Drucker

“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.” — Robert Kiyosaki

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ―Suzy Kassem

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” — Stephen King

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius

“A minute’s success pays the failure of years.” – Robert Browning

“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” – Eddie Cantor

“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.” — Gordon B. Hinckley

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.” — Mark Twain

“Impatience never commanded success.” – Edwin H. Chapin

“Work and you’ll get what you need; work harder and you’ll get what you want.” — Prabakaran Thirumalai

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

“What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” ―Lionel

“Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.” — Joseph Barbara

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.” — Chris Grosser

“Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” — Robert Frost

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” — Anthony Robbins

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” — Paulo Coelho

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” ―Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

“A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint.” — Sarah Price

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that other throw at him.” — David Brinkley

“Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ―John C. Maxwell

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain

“You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.” — Mark Cuban

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” —  Thomas Jefferson

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

“Fortune befriends the bold.” – Emily Dickinson

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney

“Success is never accidental.” – Jack Dorsey

“With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.” — Antoine Griezmann

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” — Jim Rohn

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” — Michael John Bobak

“The secret of the team’s success is easy – unity and hard work.” – David Beckham

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” ―Helen Keller

“Hard work is an essential element in tracking down and perfecting a strategy or in executing it.” — Charlie Munger

“If you’re not positive energy, you’re negative energy.” —Mark Cuban

“They succeed, because they think they can.” – Virgil

“Work harder than you think you did yesterday.” — Alex Elle

“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.” — Patrick Suskind

“It isn’t as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don’t worry. I say that to myself every morning.” — Gordon B. Kinkley

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.” – Babe Ruth

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” —Les Brown

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” – George S. Patton

“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.” — Tony Hsieh

“There is no substitute for victory.” – Douglas MacArthur

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“If you’re changing the world, you’re working on important things. You’re excited to get up in the morning.” — Larry Page

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.“ — Alexander Graham Bell

“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.” – Jonathan Winters

“A lot of hard work is hidden behind nice things.” — Ralph Lauren

“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” — Steve Jobs

“The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” — Bill Cosby

“Do more than is required.” — Gary Ryan Blair

“Success is survival.” – Leonard Cohen

“Many of life’s failures are experiences by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon

“Failure is success in progress.” – Albert Einstein

So that is it for our list of Short Inspiring Work Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!

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